The Farrar Award recognizes the best journal article or chapter in an edited collection
on the historical relationship between the media and civil rights published in the
previous two years.

Walmsley will receive the award, which includes a $1,000 cash prize, on April 4 during
the Media and Civil Rights History Symposium at the University of South Carolina. He will present his work in a special address
as a part of the symposium.

Walmsley is a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds, where his research focuses
on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He is examining how the process
of news construction has affected understandings of "the Civil Rights and Homophile
Movements of the Long 1960s."

By examining the interactive and symbiotic relationship between activists in these
movements and mainstream journalists, his research aims to understand how and why
this "first rough draft of history" was created and how it has been used by generations
of scholars.

His work has also received the British Association of American Studies Ambassador's
Postgraduate Award.

A panel of experts juried the Farrar award competition: Patricia Sullivan (University
of South Carolina), Bobby Donaldson (University of South Carolina), and Phillip Jeter
(Winston-Salem State University).

Mark Joseph Walmsley

Public Lecture

Mark Walmsley will present his work in a public lecture at the Inn at USC at 2:15
p.m. on Saturday, April 4.